Dear Editor,
Congratulations to Jamaica’s golden league for a magnificent performance during Rio 2016 Olympcs.
In particular, we acknowledge the new sprint queen, Elaine Thompson, of the parish of Manchester and the big man, Usain Bolt, with a personality that lit up the world. He has truly written his name into the history books with the treble-triple Olympic gold medals.
Bolt was the main headline in major newspapers around the world.
The New York Times blasted, ‘Usain Bolt leads Jamaica to relay gold, US disqualified’, while the
Toronto Star had, ‘Usain Bolt, simply the best there ever was...’
Being curious of what the Japanese would write, especially with a half-Jamaican in their silver-winning team, I looked and came across this shocker written by Andrew McKirdy of theJapan Times, “Japan came within a fraction of a second of sabotaging Usain Bolt’s bid for Olympic immortality but claimed a first-ever silver medal in the men’s 4×100-metre relay at the Rio Games on Friday.“ While recognising that Japan won the silver medal, finishing .33 seconds behind Jamaica’s 37.27secs, it certainly was no efforts of sabotaging, and we commend the Japan team of Ryota Yamagata, Shota Iizuka, Yoshihide Kiryu and Aska Cambridge (half-Jamaican) of dreaming the Jamaican dream. They definitely could not catch up with the lightning Bolt!
Dudley C McLean II
Mandeville, Manchester
dm15094@gmail.com
Congratulations to Jamaica’s golden league for a magnificent performance during Rio 2016 Olympcs.
In particular, we acknowledge the new sprint queen, Elaine Thompson, of the parish of Manchester and the big man, Usain Bolt, with a personality that lit up the world. He has truly written his name into the history books with the treble-triple Olympic gold medals.
Bolt was the main headline in major newspapers around the world.
The New York Times blasted, ‘Usain Bolt leads Jamaica to relay gold, US disqualified’, while the
Toronto Star had, ‘Usain Bolt, simply the best there ever was...’
Being curious of what the Japanese would write, especially with a half-Jamaican in their silver-winning team, I looked and came across this shocker written by Andrew McKirdy of theJapan Times, “Japan came within a fraction of a second of sabotaging Usain Bolt’s bid for Olympic immortality but claimed a first-ever silver medal in the men’s 4×100-metre relay at the Rio Games on Friday.“ While recognising that Japan won the silver medal, finishing .33 seconds behind Jamaica’s 37.27secs, it certainly was no efforts of sabotaging, and we commend the Japan team of Ryota Yamagata, Shota Iizuka, Yoshihide Kiryu and Aska Cambridge (half-Jamaican) of dreaming the Jamaican dream. They definitely could not catch up with the lightning Bolt!
Dudley C McLean II
Mandeville, Manchester
dm15094@gmail.com